The Hour of the Dragon
By Robert E. Howard
Cover: Belshazzar's Feast (1820), oil on canvas by John Martin (1789-1854) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1854)
The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard's suicide, although not the last to be written. The novel was first published in serial form in the December 1935 through April 1936 issues of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. The first book edition was published by Gnome Press in hardcover in 1950. The Gnome Press edition retitled the story Conan the Conqueror, a title retained by all subsequent editions until 1977, when the original title was restored in an edition published by Berkley/Putnam.
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Table of contents
- 1: O Sleeper, Awake!
- 2: A Black Wind Blows
- 3: The Cliffs Reel
- 4: 'From What Hell Have You Crawled?'
- 5: The Haunter of the Pits
- 6: The Thrust of a Knife
- 7: The Rending of the Veil
- 8: Dying Embers
- 9: Chapter 9
- 10: A Coin from Acheron
- 11: Swords of the South
- 12: The Fang of the Dragon
- 13: 'A Ghost Out of the Past'
- 14: The Black Hand of Set
- 15: The Return of the Corsair
- 16: Black-Walled Khemi
- 17: 'He Has Slain the Sacred Son of Set!'
- 18: 'I Am the Woman Who Never Died'
- 19: In the Hall of the Dead
- 20: Out of the Dust Shall Acheron Arise
- 21: Drums of Peril
- 22: The Road to Acheron